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A 34-year-old park ranger and mother of two was shot and killed this morning at Mount Rainier National Park. The shooting occurred just before 11 a.m. in the Barns Flat area, about 1 mile below Paradise. A 24-year-old man has been named a "strong person of interest" in the slaying.Park spokesman Kevin Bacher identified the slain ranger as Margaret Anderson. She is married to a fellow park ranger and has two daughters, who are approximately 2 and 4. She lived in Eatonville.More than 100 law enforcement personnel from agencies including Pierce County Sheriff's Department, the FBI, Washington State Patrol, U.S. Forest Service and other local police agencies are at the park and searching for the suspect. Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said the authorities believe he is armed with an assault weapon and possibly other weapons.Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, has been named a "strong person of interest." Barnes is believed to have military experience and possess skills to survive in the wild. Troyer says the man's vehicle was recovered, which had weapons and body armor. According to KOMO-TV, Barnes is also a suspect in a shooting this morning in Skyway that injured four people.Pierce County SWAT team has been deployed at the park, and other teams were expected, Troyer said.A Border Patrol Black Hawk helicopter has also been deployed. Troyer said armored vehicles were being brought in to remove about 100 people who are hunkered down in cabins who police worry might be in the line of fire."We're working to keep everybody safe," Troyer said. According to park spokesman Bacher, the suspect was stopped around 10:11 a.m. by another ranger. The suspect took off in his vehicle and was stopped by Anderson, who was monitoring a road block. Anderson was shot, and the suspect fled on foot, Bacher said."It took 90 minutes for back up to reach Ranger Anderson because the assailant continued shooting at law enforcement as they arrived," Lee Taylor said in a Mount Rainier National Park news release. Mount Rainier National Park has been closed until further notice, and the public is being urged to stay out of the area. News helicopters have been asked to not fly overhead.Melinda Simpson, operations manager for Mount Rainier National Park guest services, reports that the Jackson Visitor Center went into lockdown at 11:30 a.m., and the National Park Inn at Longmire at 1 p.m. The Paradise Inn has not yet opened for the season.At 3 p.m., about 100 people were still holed up inside the Jackson center, Troyer said. Others are in different lodges. "They are sheltering in place," Troyer said.Simpson said she got all her guests together in the lodge at the National Park Inn and is trying to keep the mood "rational and sane" and keep guests comfortable.She said there is a strong sheriff's department presence around Longmire.Early this afternoon, people are still out hiking and snowshoeing at Rainier. They were asked to return to the lodge or to their cars by officers who are searching for the suspect. A steady stream of cars and visitors are being turned around at an entrance booth. Five sheriff's deputy vehicles are blocking the entrance beyond the booth.Roy residents Ken and Melody Loney drove up around 11:30 a.m. and were turned back. They've been sitting in their Jeep in a parking lot outside the park."We’re just hanging out. I mean, we have the day off," Ken Loney said.Loney said that between between 1 and 1:15 p.m., he and his wife heard four gunshots. They said that earlier in the day, they saw 50 different law enforcement vehicles come into the park.Jessica Provines, 23, of Tacoma had also headed to Rainier to play today and was rerouted. She and her boyfriend wanted to play in the snow. They were disappointed that they couldn’t get in, but they understand."Today was our last to get out and play around, but we were in it for the drive,” Provines said.The Associated Press and News Tribune staff writers Craig Hill, Stacia Glenn, Debbie Cafazzo, Jeffrey P. Mayor and Kate McEntee contributed to this report.
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Dammit.
That is terrible. I feel bad for her.
This is crazy. It's like this guy wants people to hunt for him, like it's some sort of game or something.
Hopefully they get him before things get worse.
Thought it said pink ranger.
Still pretty bad regardless. Park rangers are good people.
He had body armor and military grade weapons in his truck? And he was confident enough to just leave that shit there?
Who knows what hes lugging around with him. This guy is not to be fucked with and I hope he doesn't try to go out in a blaze of gunfire and death, just killing more people.
[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;34008490]He had body armor and military grade weapons in his truck? And he was confident enough to just leave that shit there?
Who knows what hes lugging around with him. This guy is not to be fucked with and I hope he doesn't try to go out in a blaze of gunfire and death, just killing more people.[/QUOTE]
Oh shit. Kind of close to [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampage_(2009_film)"]Rampage[/URL], except in Washington instead of Oregon.
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;34008778]Oh shit. Kind of close to [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampage_(2009_film)"]Rampage[/URL], except in Washington instead of Oregon.[/QUOTE]
That movie was awesome. I mostly liked that reinforced Kevlar full-body armor/helmet
[QUOTE=pessimistic;34008296]That is terrible. I feel bad for him.[/QUOTE]
I wonder who only read the title.
[QUOTE=pessimistic;34008296]That is terrible. I feel bad for him.[/QUOTE]
Are you talking about the park ranger you assumed was a male, or the shooter?
That ruined my night.
Imagine what the husband is feeling right now and what he and his kids have to go through.
The taking of innocent life is unforgivable
I read this from news paper, I wonder what those red scar-like things were on her. Also it is good thing they found his car.
[QUOTE=Careld;34013430]I read this from news paper, I wonder what those red scar-like things were on her. Also it is good thing they found his car.[/QUOTE]
Looks like old burns. Or possibly a birth mark.
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"Let's get out of here, Boo-Boo!"
Update: He apparently has been found -dead.
Yep, shooter's body found half submerged in a creek, Mother Nature took care of him. That's what happens when you run around in a frozen wilderness in a t-shirt.
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He was an Iraq war veteran gone postal after suffering from PTSD.
[QUOTE=nox;34026260]Yep, shooter's body found half submerged in a creek, Mother Nature took care of him. That's what happens when you run around in a frozen wilderness in a t-shirt.
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He was an Iraq war veteran gone postal after suffering from PTSD.[/QUOTE]
Poor guy. I'm thinking that he mostly killed those people because of it.
[QUOTE=The First 11'er;34026980]Poor guy. I'm thinking that he mostly killed those people because of it.[/QUOTE]
He only killed 1 person, and wounded around 6 people at a party.
The ranger was only shot because he was on the run after shooting the 6 people, and the ranger happened to be tailing him with a car.
[QUOTE=SonicHitman;34030092]He only killed 1 person, and wounded around 6 people at a party.
The ranger was only shot because he was on the run after shooting the 6 people, and the ranger happened to be tailing him with a car.[/QUOTE]
Ah, I was told in my history class that he killed a few. My bad.
Sorry for the bump
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[QUOTE]In this pool photo provided by the Pierce Co. Sheriff's Dept. , Pierce County Sheriff Sgt. Mike Blair, center, works with other law enforcement officials at a command center at Mount Rainier National Park, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, in Washington state. Officials were searching into the evening for an at-large gunman who is a person of interest in the fatal shooting of a park ranger earlier in the day.
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[QUOTE]In this pool photo provided by the Pierce Co. Sheriff's Dept. , an FBI Swat team member wearing night-vision gear is shown at a command center at Mount Rainier National Park, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, in Washington state. Officials were searching into the evening for an at-large gunman who is a person of interest in the fatal shooting of a park ranger earlier in the day.
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[QUOTE]Mount Rainer is seen at dawn Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, from Seattle, some 50 miles away from the national park. A Mount Rainier National Park ranger was fatally shot following a New Year's Day traffic stop, and the 368-square mile park in Washington state was closed as dozens of officers searched for the armed gunman over snowy and rugged terrain.
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[QUOTE]In this photo provided by the Pierce Co. Sheriff's Dept. , FBI SWAT team members load the body of Benjamin Colton Barnes into a vehicle Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state. Barnes' body was recovered from a creek bed Monday, after he allegedly shot and killed a park ranger Sunday during a traffic stop in the park. Barnes did not have any external wounds and appears to have died due to the elements, Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said.
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[QUOTE]Randy King, Superintendent at Mount Rainier National Park, speaks with reporters, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, at the park in Washington state. Park Ranger Margaret Anderson was shot and killed Sunday during a traffic stop in the park, and the body of her alleged killer was recovered from a creek in the park Monday.
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[QUOTE]Photos provided by the Pierce County Sheriff's Dept. of Benjamin Colton Barnes, are taped to a map of the Mount Rainier area, at Mount Rainier National Park, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012 in Washington State. FBI handout photo shows 24-year-old Benjamin Colton Barnes, a subject of interest in the killing of Mount Rainier National Park ranger Margaret Anderson on January 1, 2012. Anderson, a 34-year-old mother of two young children, was killed after she stopped a gunman's vehicle at a roadblock shortly after another ranger tried to stop the same car about a mile away, park spokesman Kevin Bacher said in a statement..
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[QUOTE]In this undated photo provided by the Pierce County Sheriff's Dept. , Benjamin Colton Barnes, is shown. Officials said Barnes is a person of interest in the fatal shooting of a park ranger at Mount Rainier National Park, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012 in Washington State.
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[QUOTE]In this pool photo provided by the Pierce Co. Sheriff's Dept. , bullet holes can be seen Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, in the windshield of the vehicle that was driven by Park Ranger Dan Camiccia Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, when he was shot at by a gunman who shot and killed Park Ranger Margaret Anderson during a traffic stop Sunday at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state.
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[QUOTE]This undated photo provided by Mount Rainier National Park shows park Ranger Margaret Anderson. Anderson, 34, was fatally shot Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state, according to the National Park Service. Officials closed the park after the shooting Sunday, and asked people to stay out of the area while they search for a man carrying a long rifle.
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[QUOTE]A badge is worn by Chuck Young, Chief Park Ranger at Mount Rainier National Park, with a black mourning band in place, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, as he speaks to the media at the park in Washington state. Park Ranger Margaret Anderson was shot and killed Sunday during a traffic stop in the park, and the body of her alleged killer was recovered from a creek in the park Monday.
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[QUOTE]Park Ranger Matt Chalup lowers the flag to half-staff, at an entrance to Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, the day after Park Ranger Margaret Anderson was killed by a gunman inside the park. The park remains closed Monday as officials search for the gunman, who remained at-large after he fled on foot.
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Wow
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;34008778]Oh shit. Kind of close to [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampage_(2009_film)"]Rampage[/URL], except in Washington instead of Oregon.[/QUOTE]
that movie was so dumb
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Reminds me of the rebels from Half-Life 2.
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